Empowerment

SIPTU has welcomed €45 million extra in Budget 2025 to raise pay for workers in the early years education and childcare sector.

New research released by Pobal today has found that people living in areas of deprivation are  significantly more likely to report poor health or disability. 

Funding for pilot wellness hub ends, but mental health work must continue

So why are equality and human rights so important now? Past progress has benefited many of us but there are still many groups who are denied equity. Since the foundation of the State every decade in Ireland has seen various groups discriminated against, excluded and in some cases dehumanised.

Professor Siobhan Mullally is the UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children and she also supervised Andrew Forde when he was studying for his PhD. She spoke at the launch of his book.

Author with background in European conflict resolution publishes first book

The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) has launched a new Online Youth Mental Health Signposting Tool, which is designed to provide young people, parents and youth workers easy access to mental health resources and services locally. 

40,048 disclosures of domestic abuse marks an 18% increase on previous year’s figures and the highest in Women’s Aid’s 50-year history. Reports of physical violence rose by 74%, and economic abuse by 87%.